CESS2026
CESS2026
Conference
CESS2026
Nazarbayev University, Astana, Kazakhstan
16 – 19 Jun 2026
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ANT001
OPEN PANEL: Ethical and Secure Research in a Changing World. An Open Discussion about Methodology under Surveillance, Inequality, Propaganda and State Violence (I and II)
ANT002
Ethnic repatriation as migration: revisiting return and integration in Kazakhstan
ANT004
Migration and Welfare Austerity: Mobilizing Kinship for Care, Welfare and Development in Kyrgyzstan, Berghahn Books, 2026 (March)
ANT007
Dealing with Institutional Volatility: Food Production, Processing and Trade in South-Eastern Qazaqstan
ANT017
Critical perspectives and challenges in material culture research: Central Asian Textiles (HALI, 2025) by Snezhana Atanova and Theresa Tereza Hejzlarová
ANT100
Funding Eurasian Studies: Practical Strategies for Young Scholars Seeking International Grants
ANT500
ANTHROPOLOGY and ARCHEOLOGY
BUS500
BUSINESS, FINANCE and MANAGEMENT
CULT001
Формальная и неформальная музеификация в Казахстане (Formal and Informal Museumization in Kazakhstan)
CULT002
Hydro-Cosmology in Kazakhstan: Art, Ecology, and Infrastructures of Care
CULT003
Book discussion. Байконур vs. Байқоңыр: книга устных историй о космосе. Под ред. Медеуовой К. Алматы: Центр современной культуры «Целинный», 2025.
CULT003
Imagination and Creativity in Postnormal Times: Invoking the Heritage, Reshaping the Present, and Building the Future
CULT004
Socio-Cultural Transformation and the Reception of the Mahayana Buddhist Worldview in Contemporary Societies of Central Asia
CULT500
CULTURAL STUDIES, ART HISTORY and FINE ART
ECON001
Inflation, Structural Dependence, and Household Vulnerability in Post-2022 Central Asia.
ECON002
Labor and Mobility
ECON003
Trade and Economic Integration
ECON500
ECONOMICS
EDU001
Collaborative Action Research: In Search of Professional Autonomy
EDU002
Regional University Autonomy and Development: Agency, Transformation, and Identity
EDU003
Education, Youth, and Innovation in Kyrgyzstan: Local Responses to Global Challenges
EDU004
Global Health and Medical Education in Central Asia: Current Trends, Challenges, and Opportunities
EDU005
Opening Pandora’s Box: Internationalisation of Higher Education and First-Year Uzbek Students’ Academic Transition, Hidden Expectations, and Reform Universities
EDU500
EDUCATION
GEND002
Gender, voice, and cultural memory in Kazakh discourse: from proverbs to post-soviet literature
GEND003
Men and masculinities in Central Asia
GEND004
Women in Arts: Arts of Women in Kazakhstan
GEND500
GENDER STUDIES
GEO001
Environmental Ideologies in Central Eurasia: Regional and Local Dimensions
GEO500
GEOGRAPHY and ECOLOGY
HIST001
Interpreting Sources: Discourses of Historical Events in Late Medieval and Early Modern Central Asia and the Caucasus
HIST002
The hermeneutics of historical and literary occurrences in Turkestan during the 18th - early 20th centuries.
HIST003
Traditions of Authority and Statecraft across the Eurasian Steppe
HIST004
Hybridity, Alterity, and Boundary-Crossing
HIST005
Social and Environmental Engineering on the Kazakh Steppe, from the Russian Empire to the Soviet Era
HIST006
Empire, Nationalism, and Ethnicity in Central Eurasia
HIST007
Russian Imperial Rule in Kazakhstan: Knowledge, Economic Development, Memory, and Society [English&Russian]
HIST008
Kyrgyz Nomads between Empire and Socialism: Reconfiguring Power, Mobility, and Governance, Late 19th–Early 20th Centuries
HIST009
Negotiating Empire: Local Agency, Infrastructure, and Everyday Resistance in the Kazakh Steppe [Russian]
HIST010
The Book Culture of Muslims in the Steppe Region in the 19th and the early 20th Centuries: Approaches, Sources, and Social Significance
HIST011
Book Presentation for the 110th Anniversary of Urkun: Memory Practices and Contemporary Approaches to a Traumatic Past
HIST012
From the Caucasus to Xinjiang: The Interests of Empires in the Context of Historical Time [Russian]
HIST020
Imagining and Making the Kazakh Nation
HIST022
Diaspora and Displacement in Central Asia and the Russian imperial frontier
HIST023
Diasporic Communities and Networks
HIST024
Statemaking in Xinjiang / East Turkestan
HIST025
Commodities and Imperial Infrastructure
HIST027
Building and Rebuilding National Heritage
HIST028
Elites, Education, and the Politics of Enlightenment
HIST030
Central Asia as Imperial Frontier and Anti-Colonial Crucible
HIST031
Digital Humanities and Central Asian Studies
HIST032
Limits of Memory Politics
HIST033
Central Eurasian Knowledge and Intellectual Traditions
HIST034
Nomads, the Steppe, and Settlers
HIST035
State and Military in Central Eurasia
HIST036
Sects, Schisms, and Politics
HIST037
Soviet Central Asian Discourses in the post-Stalin Era
HIST038
Gender and Family Law in the Late Imperial and early Soviet Periods
HIST500
HISTORY
LANG002
Academic Writing in Higher Education
LANG500
LANGUAGE and LINGUISTICS
LIT001
Kazakh Decolonial Intellectual Discourse: Language, Literature, History, and Politics in the XXth Century Қазақтың деколониялық интеллектуалдық дискурсы: ХХ ғасырдағы тіл, әдебиет, тарих және саясат
LIT002
Contested Bodies: Representing Corporeality in Soviet and Post-Soviet Kazakhstani Cultural Production
LIT003
Regimes of Legitimacy: Representing Authority, Tradition, and Knowledge in the Kazakh Context
LIT500
LITERATURE
MED001
Artificial Intelligence, Media, and Journalism Education in Central Eurasia: Rethinking Knowledge, Technology, and Power
MED002
Can the interpreter speak? Interpreting Central Eurasian (re)imagination
MED500
MEDIA STUDIES
POL003
From Resistance to Connectivity: Iran’s Strategic Pivot to Central Eurasia
POL004
From Security Order to Security Flux: Rethinking Central Asian Security Architecture
POL005
The Kleptocratic Enterprise: Redefining kleptocracy for the offshore era
POL006
Recent Institutional Adaptations in Central Asia: Universities, NGOs, Media, and Think Tanks
POL500
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POLITICAL SCIENCE, INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS and LAW
PUB002
Living Law and Layered Governance: Informal Institutions and Administrative Legacies in Central Asia
PUB003
The book ‘Political Economy of Kazakhstan: From Neoliberal Dogma to Social Catastrophe. Includes a glossary of neoliberal euphemisms and postmodernist concepts’
PUB500
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION and PUBLIC POLICY
REL001
Faith, Identity and the Empires
REL002
Religion in Memory and Institutions
REL500
RELIGION
SOC001
Legal Precarity, Vernacular Navigation, and Migrant Agency across Central Eurasia and Beyond
SOC002
Rethinking Corruption and Reform in Central Asia: Legal Pluralism and Institutional Change
SOC003
The formation and development of contemporary soft power of Central Asian countries
SOC004
Book Discussion: "Traditions and Values of Kazakhs in the XXI century," Edited by Alima Bissenova (2025), Astana: "Foliant"
SOC005
Research for Whom? Applied Qualitative Studies and the Positive Dual Use of Knowledge
SOC006
Marxism in/on Central Asia
SOC007
Wartime migrants from Russia in local context: politics of mobility and pathways of migrants’ agency
SOC008
Kazakh/Kazakhstani diaspora: Adaptation strategy, identity, new trends
SOC009
Ethnic (Out)Migration and Co-Ethnic Interaction in Central Eurasia: Dynamics, Policies and Identity Dilemmas
SOC010
Multiple Identity and Social Consensus: Social Distance and Accord in Central Eurasia
SOC011
Rethinking positionality in the era of “I feel offended”
SOC012
Computational Social Science: Applications to Central Asian Studies
SOC013
Data Without Data? Using LLMs to Advance Social Research in Central Asia
SOC100
How to publish (not a lot but enough) and overcome the productivity myth A strategic training session on choose and approach journals, minimise desk (and reviewer) rejection while staying healthy
SOC500
SOCIOLOGY and SOCIAL ISSUES
URB500
URBAN STUDIES
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